COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1917, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

>'; ' ' Australian markets. Melbourne, January 2(5. Hurley—English 4.-, 3d to 4s fid, Cane 3s to 3s 3d. Oats—Milling Alberians 2s 3d to 2s S'/id, feeding- 2s Id to 2s 2d. Potatoes, .€3 10s to £0 Ms. Onions, ,C 7 to £7 10s. NEWTON .KINO'S REPORT, At Olmra on Thursday, IStli, for my monthly sale, 1 had the largest yarding yet seen in these yards. Fully 1300 head of cattle and over 1000 rfice.p were penned. Tire sale, was remarkable for the number of large well-grown cattle in good condition, 'but prices generally «ere easier, yet'only a few of the lots were passcdi 'Prices were: Fat ewes 34s Sd, forward wethers 34s Id, 2-tooth wethers 33s 4d to 31s, £-tooth ewes (small). 24s fid, 4 and fi-yeur ewes 27s lOd, forward bullocks £l4 10s, £ls Is, £ls lis, £ls 12s ikl to £.lO 10s, forward cows £ll 7s. A nice line of fat bullocks sold on account iof Messrs Williams and Brace and purchased by the Taranaki Meat Company, made £lB ss. Two-year steers £ll 7s to £ll 14s, 3-year steers £l2 10s to £l3 lis, store cows £8 2s fid, cows and calves £lO. Odd lots at full market rates. At Eahotu on Friday, lfltli, there was a good entry, wliioh sold under •good competition as follows:—..Weaner steers £4 10s fid and £4 lis fid, smaller £3 12s Gd to £3 18s, weaner heifers £2 ss, bulls £S to £l3 10s, fat eows £lO 18s to £l4 <!«, store ewes 3!*s, cull lambs 15s Id.

At Uremu on Monday, 2.2nd inst., fat bullocks sold up to .CIS 10s, fat heifers £ll 18s, fat cows up to £l4 ss, forward cows £lO 15s to £.ll 13s, store cows £S 2s (id to tl) 7s Gd, 2'/■-year steers £l2 7. empty 2V!;-year Jieifeis £9 ISs, rough 2%-year steers £0 17s, cows and calves £7 iss to £ll (Is, bulls £0 5s to £l4 15s, weaner lieifers £2' 10s to £2 15s.

At Stony River- yards on Tuesday, 23rd, cattle eamo forward much in excess of advertised numbers, all yards and races being well filled. Competition was good. Fully 250 mixed iveaners were yarded and met a ready sale. Best mixed wcaners made £4 7s, others £3 2s fid to £4 2s, weaner lieifers £2 8s to £3, 15-month steers £7 15s to £»< and a choice pen of Shorthorn 18-moiUh steers made £lO 13s, good 2%-year steers £ll 12s to £l3 10s, fat cows £l2 17s to £l4 12s (id, forward'cows and heifers £0 12s (id to £ll 18*, store eows £8 's to £9 18s, bulls £ll 15s to £l2, springing heifers £S ss, mixed 2-tooths 33s 3i|.

AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report as follows: — At Westfiehl store sale 'best dairy eows and lieifers made £l4) 10s to £ls 10s, others. £8 to £lO si, empty cows £8 to £lO ss, empty cows' £S to £3 17s (id, bulls Rgns to Mgns, steer calves £4 10s to £5 lis, heifer calves £3 15s to £4 His, yearling to 18-months heifers £o to £8 3s. At Westfield fat stock- market first.quality ox sold to £2 10s per 1001b, others £2 Gs to £2 Us, cow and heifer licet £2 3s to £2 Ss, steers from £l3 to £25 (for two first prize-taking bullocks at Waikato Show), eows and heifers £!) 12s Gd to £l7 5s (for the first prize-taking tliree-vear fat heifers at Waikato Show). Calves: Runners £7 15s to £ll 10s, heavy vealers £fi to £7 10s, ..tedium vealers £3 10s to £5 17s Gd, light vealers £2 to £3 Bs, small and fresh-dropper Gs to £1 17«. S'heep: Lest wethers £1 15s (id to £1 19s 9d, others £1 lis Gd to £1 14s 9d, heavy ewes £1 12s Gd to £1 15s G(K others £ i Gs to £1 lis 9d. hoggets £1 7s to £1 12s fid. Lambs: Best £1 .0 9d, others IGs 3d to £1 2s. Pigs: Choppers and heavy baconers £3 10s to £4 Is, others £2 12s to £3 6s, heavy porkers £2 12s to £3 ss, medium £2 4s to £2 lis, small £1 Hs to £iJ 3s, slips £1 4s to £1 12s, weaners 13s to £1 3s. '